Ask HN: Why is the Windows hosts file in such an odd location?

Re:Ask HN: Why is the Windows hosts file in such an odd loca... by buckyball on Friday May 02, 2014 @09:19AM (#7685458)

I really wanted to ask this many times.

> Is it some kind of homage to UNIX

this!

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Windows hosts file in such an odd loca... by junto on Friday May 02, 2014 @09:30AM (#7685513)

I'd quite like this to be the case! I'm imagining some contract MS engineer with a deep love of UNIX snuck in a change to the core of Windows without anyone noticing.

I doubt it though!

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Windows hosts file in such an odd loca... by dan_b on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:23AM (#7748192)

The Windows network stack is built on BSD code.

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